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Originally Posted by ATL Stadium
The stadium design as stated before I like....under ground parking lots have covered tops and directions for water to flow away from the building site....an open top stadium would not.
One other point is cost...ie: Winnipeg is looking at a combo shopping/office/ stadium in the hundreds of millions.......kind of a difficult comparison.
I would love to review the possible site around HRM to see whats available for purchase or already owned by the public purse. I do know of a private site of a quarry along the 102 that in my mind has great potential. Very similar to the location that someone else posted close to Bayers Lake Shopping district.
Anyway... I think we can spend way too much time on the design and sites at this point we all need to push for the public approval and political or private will to make this happen sooner rather than later.
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The Winnipeg stadium portion is only estimated to be $120 million and it seems to be a relatively elaborate design.
The idea of using a quarry is a good one if it is not in too isolated a location. 30 - 35 feet deep would be enough to have seats in a bowl for 25,000 people; with an additional 25,000 on the field there would be room for 50,000 for concerts. The big advantage to such a design is that everybody enters from the top (cutting down on costs for ramps and stairways). If additional seats are required then they are just added around the top of the bowl. The exterior wall would be relatively low and a cantilever roof over all the seats would have a relatively short overhang (around 70 feet).
If a sunken bowl is on a hill or any incline then if should not fill with water unless drain pipes are omitted. The field would have to be built with adequate drainage and graded so that the water will drain towards the drain pipes going down the hill. Every day I drive through an underpass that is sunken under train tracks and it doesn't fill with water. I am not saying that this is not a consideration but any stadium will have to be built with proper drainage. So if building a stadium in a natural depression, such as a quarry, is considered then an experienced engineer and experienced landscapers will be required. I would love to see such a stadium in the Halifax area, surrounded by landscaping.
Here are a couple well know sunken bowl type stadiums:
Yale Bowl: (source:
http://football.ballparks.com/NCAA/Ivy/Yale/index.htm )
A 2500 year old one (source:
http://www.odysseyadventures.ca/trip...greecetrip.htm ) . This is the Epidaurus theater in Greece and is still in use today -
http://www.indigoguide.com/greece/epidaurus.htm . Personally, I think that Halifax should build a stadium similar to this but more modern which will last at least 1000 years.
(source:
http://badarchaeology.blogspot.com/2...1_archive.html ) - Here is another image. I wish that this could be the basis for a stadium in Halifax.